1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: The CEOs of ten major US airlines are demanding Congress 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 2: and a funding standoff and pay its TSA workers. In 5 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 2: a letter, they claim ninety three percent of Americans support 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: paying aviation workers during government shutdown. Did not expect to 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: start the line outside in the barking garage? Then? 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 3: Did you come to the airport early? 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: Very early? 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 4: Travelers waiting three hours or longer just to get through 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 4: TSA screening. 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 3: Airport officials say the long lines are tied to the 13 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 3: partial government shutdown. 14 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: I think it needs to be cleaned up because it's 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: just not good. A lot of people are missing flights. 16 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 3: Well, some passengers got a heads up. 17 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 5: I think everyone has been communicated with so it's not 18 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 5: too stressful. 19 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 3: Others say they were blindsided. Did you expect anything like this? 20 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 6: No? 21 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 3: Not, What are you going to miss your flight? 22 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: I've been here several times in you know, when Airbnb started, 23 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 1: it was so unique, so special, so and I remember 24 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: I had a friend. For those of you not in 25 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: the greater Houston area, Galveston is a little tourist destinational 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: island an hour south of Houston and Galveston and New 27 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: Orleans used to compete as the major ports until around 28 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: nineteen hundred when there was a terrible fire and a 29 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: storm and the city of Houston managed to raise the 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: money and get a federal match. I think it was 31 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: a million and a million, which is a lot of money. 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: In about nineteen ten, and they dredged a port almost 33 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: fifty miles inland. It's the only time has ever been 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: done like this, a deep water port fifty miles inland, 35 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: because it was safer from the storm and anyway. So 36 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: Galveston is a After that, they lost a lot of 37 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: their port business. They still have a port, there's still 38 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: a port along the Gulf of America, but it doesn't 39 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: compete with New Orleans to the extent that it once did, 40 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 1: because if you look at them at the map of America, 41 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: you've got the western ports, you got the eastern ports. 42 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: This area, the Gulf of America, Galveston, New Orleans, Houston 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: are competing for everything that's coming into the middle of 44 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: the country, and so Galveston lost some of its luster. 45 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: It was a very wealthy city, and now it is 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: mostly a tourist attraction, although it's a wonderful place. It's beautiful, 47 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: great architecture, has a New Orleans field to some of it. 48 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: There was some illegal gambling, which gives it a little, 49 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: you know, a little flavor to it all. But I 50 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: had a friend who had a house down there on 51 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: the beach, and when Airbnb started, he was renting it out. 52 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: He was renting it out to such an extent that 53 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 1: his wife said, hey, we're not getting to take the 54 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: kids down, which was the whole reason we bought it, 55 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: because you're keeping it rented. And he said, yeah, but 56 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: look at this is how much money we're making. And 57 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: this was in the beginning of Airbnb, and she said, oh, yeah, 58 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: that's fine. So they decided they'd buy another house. That way, 59 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: they could rent the other house and then be able 60 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: to use theirs for themselves and the Airbnb rental would 61 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: more than pay the note. And that seemed like a 62 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: great idea because at that point it was reasonable people 63 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: who were renting it. And somewhere along the way, really 64 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: bad people started renting. And you can have ninety nine 65 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: good rentals, you have one bad one. This is going 66 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: to be gross, So tune me out for about a minute. 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: If gross things bother you all right, We're ready. They 68 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: went down one weekend after they had had it rented 69 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: all week, and somebody had chosen to use their seat 70 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 1: cushions as toilet paper. Well, that's not how you go 71 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: down for the weekend after you worked all week and 72 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: you're going down to your place to relax, and all 73 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: of a sudden, he said he didn't want to buy 74 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: new cushions, but his wife said, I can never sit 75 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: on those cushions again, so he had to throw away 76 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: the cushions. Well, by the time he cleaned up all 77 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: the cushions and everything else, he lost money on that rental. 78 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: But don't you dare, don't you dare choose who you're 79 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: going to rent to. And because that's discrimination, So fast forward, 80 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: a lot of people have gotten out of the airbn 81 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,919 Speaker 1: be business because the juice isn't worth the squeeze, the 82 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: hassle is too much. A Florida woman has been arrested 83 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: and charged with criminal mischief after she rented two airbnbs 84 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: and then filmed herself peeing on the furniture and other 85 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: parts of the house. How was she caught, you ask, Well, 86 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: she uploaded the videos to an adult website, so dramon. 87 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: That must mean that somewhere somebody is going to an 88 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: adult website to see this woman, nicolete Keo pee all 89 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: over somebody's furniture, the old beetlesign. Whatever gets you through 90 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: the night, but my goodness. 91 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 4: According to arrest records, Nicolet Keo rented two downtown Pensacola 92 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 4: Airbnb homes and ruined three thousand dollars worth of furniture inside. 93 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 6: It was a young lady inside making money in a 94 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 6: very unusual way that damaged somebody else's. 95 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 4: Property, and arrest report says Keyo urinated on various pieces 96 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 4: of furniture around the homes. 97 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 6: There's a list of items including a television, a record player, 98 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 6: a coffee pot, some bedding, some carpeting, I. 99 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: Believe, or a rug and more. Yeah, we've seen damage 100 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: to Airbnb's and hotel rooms before, but nothing like this. 101 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 4: According to court records, Kyo filmed herself urinating on the 102 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 4: items and uploaded the videos to an adult content website. 103 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 4: The Airbnb host told deputies every soiled item must now 104 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 4: be replaced. Airbnb sent us a statement regarding the incident, reading, 105 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 4: in part, this kind of behavior has no place on Airbnb. 106 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: We've removed the guests from our platform. 107 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 4: And are continuing to assist the host with their reimbursement 108 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 4: request through our air cover damage protection for hosts. 109 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: Airbnb's terms of. 110 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 4: Service explicitly state that homes are not to be used 111 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 4: for sex, work or commercial purposes. Additionally, Airbnb provides up 112 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 4: to three million dollars in host protection for property damage, 113 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 4: extra cleaning costs, and more. Regardless, insurance experts say people 114 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 4: who own short term vacation rentals should still seek out 115 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 4: extra coverage in case of emergency, if. 116 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 7: For nothing else, you need to have some sort of 117 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 7: liability coverage in place, you know, because like I said, 118 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 7: somebody gets hurt on your. 119 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: Property, they come after you assue. 120 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 7: You say they left the water running and it was 121 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 7: left running for days and nobody knew, you know. I mean, 122 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 7: that can get very very expensive. 123 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 3: Another tip document everything. 124 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 7: Carriers really really like photos when it comes to claims 125 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 7: and you know, trying to get coverage for they want 126 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 7: to make sure that you have proof that you had 127 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 7: that and or it was not previously damaged. 128 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: Diamonds forever and so with some Michael Barry, remember that 129 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: there was a crash at LaGuardia National Transportation Safety Board 130 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: chairman Jennifer Hammandy says one of their investigators heading to 131 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: New York's LaGuardia Airport to investigate the deadly crash was 132 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: stuck in the TSA line in Houston. So we've had 133 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: a crash at the airport in New York. The investigator 134 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: who's supposed to be there to investigate it is in 135 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: Houston and can't get on a plane to get to 136 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:44,959 Speaker 1: New York because that person can't get through the TSA line. 137 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: We are a broken country. These are the results of DEI. 138 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: These are the results of illegal immigration, stolen elections, DEI, 139 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: race based voting. This is what happens. This is what 140 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: happens when your guilt causes you to allow bad people 141 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 1: into powerful positions. This is what happens when you choose 142 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: people to lead who have no skills. This is what happens. 143 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: This is a result. That's where we are. We are 144 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: entangled in a mess, in snarled This is not going 145 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: to be easy to fix. This is a level of 146 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: dysfunction to such a degree, to such depths that it's 147 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: not simply going to be you get Donald Trump elected 148 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: and you solve your problem. So the director of the 149 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: National Transportation Safety Board placed calls and got the person 150 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: special treatment to get out of line and get on 151 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: a plane. Here is in TSB chair Jennifer Hammondy. 152 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 5: We have LaGuardia that was shut down. We had a 153 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 5: ground stop at Newark today, and then we have dhs 154 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 5: that shut down, and we have long TSA lines. We 155 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 5: have won our at our air traffic control specialist who 156 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 5: was in line with TSA for three hours until we 157 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 5: called in Houston to beg to see if we can 158 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 5: get her through so we can get her here. So 159 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 5: it's been a really really big challenge to get the 160 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 5: entire team here. And there's still arriving as I speak, good. 161 00:10:47,040 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: Graf, good grief. And somewhere we've got Jasmine Crockett running around. Well, 162 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: the ghosts of Sheila Jackson, Lee and Sylvester Turner haunt us. 163 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is putting her teeth back in. And what 164 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: is Lindsey Grahamnesty doing in the middle of all this. 165 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: He's having a wargasm. Lindsey Grahamnesty is having a wargasm 166 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: in the middle of all this. He couldn't help himself. 167 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 1: He got so horned up. He did not know what 168 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: to do. He just beyond excited. Here he is calling 169 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: on President Trump to send in the Marines. 170 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 6: So here's what I tell President Trump. 171 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 3: Keep it up for a few more weeks. 172 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 6: Take Carg Island, where all of the resources they have 173 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 6: to produce, all control that island. 174 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: Let this regime down a bun. 175 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,560 Speaker 8: Is this going to though, Take Carg Island? Is it 176 00:11:57,559 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 8: going to involve US troops on the ground. Let me 177 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 8: just something from the Atlantic does an assessment on that. 178 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 8: They say US troops may well take Carg Island. We 179 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 8: believe their ability to do so, but only to endurabalistic 180 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 8: missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable 181 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 8: means of obtaining logistical support. The result could be a 182 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 8: grinding war of attrition. They talk about how far away 183 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 8: they would be from recent sort of. 184 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 6: Tired of all this armchair quarterback. And this has been 185 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 6: amazing military operation. 186 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: God bless the fallen. 187 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 3: But it's a difference. 188 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: Let me talk about troops on the ground. I trust 189 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: the Marines, not that guy. I trust do Odve. 190 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 6: We got two marine expeditionary units setting to this island. 191 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 6: We did ago Jima. We can do this the Marines. 192 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 6: My money is always on the Marines. I don't know 193 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 6: if you take the island or you blockade the Allan, 194 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 6: but I know this. The day we control that island, 195 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 6: this regime, this terrorist regime, has been weakened. That will 196 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,239 Speaker 6: down a vent fine. 197 00:12:54,800 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: There is something very very sick to hearing Lindsey Graham 198 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: and his fetish play out on national television. There is 199 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:17,719 Speaker 1: something very very sick about the way he gets clearly 200 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 1: sexually excited over this idea of war. This is you 201 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: are watching your boys are going to die so that 202 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: this man can get off. This seventy year old, never married, 203 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: clearly effeminate, very very awkward, lisping Lindsey is out threatening 204 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: world regimes and sending in them boys like Paul Inn. 205 00:13:54,840 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: It's weird. It is weird on the creepiest, oddest level. 206 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: And if he was only risking himself, that'd be fine. 207 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: But this guy, this weird creep freak, is out here 208 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: on national news every night talking as if he is 209 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: MacArthur or Patten, when all he's ever done is cosplay 210 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: a prisoner of war with Lord knows what kind of escort. 211 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: This is so creepy weird that nobody is putting a 212 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: stop to this. He is out saying things that are 213 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: putting parents in a panic. I know because I hear 214 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: from that is putting parents in an absolute panic about 215 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: sending their boys into a war. And I don't care 216 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: how big on the Trump train you are, how maga 217 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: you are, there is not the widespread support to send 218 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: our boys into war, and Lindsey Graham is not the 219 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: guy to mobilize it. If ever there was. This weirdo 220 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: creep freak show needs to be brought to heal now. 221 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: So you know, it's interesting how cultural trendsrit large resulting 222 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: economic trends and you don't notice it. I have noticed 223 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: everybody around me drinks less than they used to. 224 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 6: And. 225 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: It feels light. So I didn't drink till I was 226 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: twenty nine. In the big times, in people's lives where 227 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: they drink to excess, maybe not every day, but when 228 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: they drink is high school. Thank got us skipped out 229 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: on that so I can keep my grades up. College, 230 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: Thank got us skipped out on that so I could 231 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: focus on getting into good law school. Law school, which 232 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: most people don't go to graduate school, but there and 233 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: then the third one really because law school doesn't really 234 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: count for most people. Is right after school, so when 235 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: you start your first job. Well, I didn't drink during 236 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: any of those, but I saw people get into trouble 237 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: at each step of those and develop a dependency psychological, 238 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: if not physiological, and it really affect affected their lives. 239 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: They did things they wouldn't have otherwise done. They got 240 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: into bar fights, they gave them a criminal record, they 241 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: got a DWI that's with them their entire life. I 242 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: know people that cannot get a gun license, a firearm license, 243 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: firearms license because something stupid they did under the influence 244 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: of alcohol. They're still responsible because they were the human 245 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: body who committed the crime. But they're people who would 246 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: never do that if they hadn't been under the influence, 247 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: and they chose to be under the influence. I get that. 248 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say they're not should be accountable, 249 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: And in fact I get every day from people who say, 250 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: what's the name of the company. I cannot get up 251 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: a license to carry a firearm, but I want to 252 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: defend myself. Oh, the less lethal launcher burn up by 253 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: are in a dot com burner dot com. They'll mel 254 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: it to your to your doorstep, and it is your 255 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: less lethal launcher response whether you can get a firearm 256 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: or not that you can carry with you, and a 257 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: lot of ladies carry it that don't want to carry 258 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: a gun in any case. I have noticed in my 259 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: own life that people around me don't drink as much 260 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: as they used to, and some of that is I'm 261 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: noticing a lot of people I'm fifty five, a little 262 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: older than me, I have switched over to marijuana. And 263 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: it's interesting because I have questions. I hate the smell 264 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: of it. I hate it's rancid. 265 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 9: To me. 266 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: The smell of burning marijuana is awful. It's always been 267 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: described to me as burnt rope. I've never smelled rope burning, 268 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: but it always made sense. But somebody told me the 269 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: other day, who's the smoke by the way, that it 270 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: smells like a cat urine, and I thought, oh man, 271 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: I'll never get that out of my mind now. But 272 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: it does. It smells very bad to me. I am 273 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: not an outlaw marijuana person. I am a libertarian when 274 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: it comes to what you want to do. But I 275 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 1: hate people that smoke marijuana out in public. I hate 276 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: it because I have to smell it, and if people 277 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: that smoke marijuana out in public realize that they're the 278 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: reason for laws against it. People hate that. I get 279 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: emails from people when I talk about legalizing marijuana. I 280 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: get people who say, I don't care if it's legal 281 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: or not. I just don't want them smoke it out 282 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: in public. And if they're going to smoke it out 283 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: in public, keep it illegal. And my answer to that is, hey, 284 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: pot smokers, why are you just going out of your 285 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 1: way to make people hate you. If the point is 286 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,679 Speaker 1: this is something that helps you with your authritis or 287 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: this helps you with your anxiety. We've had a lot 288 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: of older folks. I've had a lot of veterans tell 289 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: me that it helps them with their anxiety with their PTSD. Fine, great, 290 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: I want to do whatever I can to help you, 291 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: and if that means that this particular drug or another 292 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: one helps you, I'm all for it. Just don't do 293 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: it out in public because it pisses people off. Myself included. 294 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: But a new Gallop pole found that US drinking the 295 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: rate of US drinking is at a new low. Only 296 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 1: fifty four percent of respondents report that they drink alcohol. 297 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:31,239 Speaker 1: Those who did say they drink a lot less the 298 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: rain that the reasons range from increased awareness of health 299 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: risks from drinking to a generational shift in habits, and 300 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: about six percent of Americans using GLP one medications. So 301 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: here's what's interesting about this. It turns out, or it 302 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: is believed, it's being reported that zeb bound munjaro ozembic 303 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 1: that these drugs in this category is semi glutide, that 304 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: this decreases your desire for alcohol. So that has turned 305 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: out to be probably a more important quote unquote benefit 306 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: than the weight loss. And it probably contributes as well 307 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: because a lot of people are carrying a beer gut 308 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: or a lot of ladies that used to rose all day. 309 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: You can't ever get lean if you're drinking like that. 310 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: So now the result is restaurants are suffering, not just bars. 311 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: I will tell you that the most profitable item at 312 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: a restaurant is alcohol. The markup on that is through 313 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: the roof. I mean, honestly, the most profitable item is 314 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: iced tea because it costs almost nothing that you can 315 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: charge a couple of bucks for it because of where 316 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: you are in the country, what your pricing is. But 317 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 1: it's turning out that restaurants can no longer count on alcohol, 318 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: and I have long understood that there is not. The 319 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: profitability in restaurants was never in the food. It's hard 320 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 1: to mark up food enough to make any money on food. 321 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: So restaurants became, just like everything else for bars, a 322 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: way to sell you alcohol and make money on the alcohol. 323 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: But now that people are drinking so much less, restaurants 324 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: are going out of business and suffering revenue loss. It's 325 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: just an interesting it's an interesting knockoff on how that, 326 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: on how that works. You ever notice that every time 327 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: there is somebody that says some awful thing, like an 328 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: Oregon high school principal, A principal, mind you on paid 329 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: leave for celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk. 330 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 9: All right? 331 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: That person was celebrating the murder of another human being 332 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: who had done nothing wrong, just a spouse, opinions, a prince, 333 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: a pool of a school, A person who should be 334 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: judicious was celebrating that publicly and on paid leave. What's 335 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: the paid leave is vacation. That person has now been 336 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: sentenced to prison for celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder. No, I 337 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't want that. It shows poor judgment. I don't think 338 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: they should be in charge of kids or faculty. No, 339 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: that person is going to prison for possession of kitty porn. 340 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: Jeremy P. Williams, fifty years old, the principal of the 341 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: Rainier Junior Senior High School in Oregon. I don't know 342 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: how close this is to Portland, but we've got some 343 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 1: affiliates in Oregon, and I know we've got a big one. 344 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: K Ex eleven ninety Email me and tell me if 345 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: you would where this is. It's Calitz County. They said. 346 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: The authorities received automatic alerts from several social media sites 347 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: after known sexually explicit images of children were traded by 348 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,959 Speaker 1: an Internet address linked to Williams. He has been sentenced 349 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,919 Speaker 1: to five years and one month in prison during the 350 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 1: hearing and ordered to register as a sex offender. Kitty 351 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: porn and he's a principal. How do you think he 352 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: made the decision to become a principal. He wanted to 353 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: be around kids. That's his obsession, that's his fetish. How 354 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: many other people, how many other people put themselves in 355 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:38,479 Speaker 1: a situation where they can indulge their sick and illegal fetish. 356 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: When people espouse opinions like that, it reflects the fact 357 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: that they are mentally unhinged, mentally unbalanced, and should not 358 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 1: be in a position like the principle. And I'll bet 359 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: you there were lots of other indicators. I've said it before, 360 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: I'll say it again. When people actually believe in the 361 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: current Democrat Party the way it's constituted now and what 362 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 1: it stands for, they are to a person mentally unbalanced. 363 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,360 Speaker 1: You're listening to the. 364 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 3: Michael Berry Show. 365 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: You can drive around Texas and see the license plates 366 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: of Californians that have moved to Texas and haven't updated 367 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: their plate yet. And this has been going on for 368 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: a long time, but it has really accelerated. And you 369 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: just can't imagine that Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, 370 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: is running for president with a straight face, considering the 371 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: fact that people are fleeing his state. Imagine wanting to 372 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,959 Speaker 1: bring his policies to the country. And think about that. 373 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: When Barack Obama ran for president, anybody with the brain 374 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: was simply look at how he came to be the 375 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: senator in Illinois. He was a rabble rouser, a guy 376 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: who gave speeches about how companies should give more money. 377 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: Basically a low level Jesse Jackson sitting through a church. 378 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: You know, dreams of my father were Sorry? What was 379 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: the book he wrote about? Jeremiah the crazy pastor, the 380 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: black nationalist pastor, not dreams of Michael. That was the 381 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: first one. It was about his pastor, whatever his name was. 382 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: I can't remember his last name. I've put these things 383 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: behind me. But he had come to be a senator, 384 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: Jeremiah Wright. What was the name of the book though, 385 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: what's the name of the book that Barack wrote about? 386 00:25:59,560 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 1: The great? 387 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 9: Here? 388 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: Am I right? And so that's why once he's actually 389 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,360 Speaker 1: a candidate and somebody started asking questions, they said, oh, wait, 390 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 1: you know this pastor you've been telling us it was 391 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: so great, so we'd believe you were a Christian and 392 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: not a Muslim. Here's some of his sermons. He's saying 393 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: crazy things. So I'll think of it a minute. It 394 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But the point of that is, dreams from 395 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: my father is one, But what was the other? He 396 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: had another? Boat? No, Dreams from my Father was about 397 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: the audacity of hope. That's it. Oh, yes, Jeremiah Wright 398 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: had dared to dream. He had taught him to dare 399 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: to dream. Oh what a beautiful story. A young black 400 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: man pulled himself up by his bootstraps, and there he 401 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: is with his black wife and she's so sweet too, 402 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: and they're just wonderful. And then you find out, no, 403 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: they're monsters. Remember Bill Clinton running for president? I still 404 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 1: believe in a town called Hope. Oh yeah, well, how 405 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: hopeful did we feel at the end of his eight years? 406 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: I wish Rush was still around. When I think about 407 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, I wish Rush was around because that was 408 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: the heyday of Rush for me. I had time to 409 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: actually listen back then. I wish Rush was still around. 410 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: I wish that often. So that brings us to New York. 411 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: So New York's policies. You got this crazy mayor and 412 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: this crazy governor, and they've raised Texas. So Robert de Niro, 413 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: who just F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, And oh day, 414 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: Robert de Niro is saying, F Trump. Okay, shorty, wearing 415 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: your little platform shoes so you can be as tall 416 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: as as as what's our guy sent to them? Oh? 417 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: What's our guy that was in Godfather? No, No, not 418 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: to vall you goof. He's a conciliary. That's Sonny. Who's 419 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: the guy who was senting a woman dogg the afternoon 420 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: al Pacino. He had to wear platforms to be as 421 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: tall as him. So de Niro, who hates Trump, hates Trump, 422 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: hates Trump and campaign hard for Mam Donnie. We've got 423 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: to embrace the evil. Y'all are evil for not embracing 424 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 1: the evil. Well, now that Mam Donnie's in, de Niro's 425 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 1: taxes were gone through the roof, and so he figures 426 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: I'm Robert de Niro. He demands a meeting with Mamdanimumdani says, nah, 427 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: that's okay. So de Niro can't get a meeting, and 428 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: it's gotten so bad that his little ego is bruised. 429 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 7: Case. 430 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: He's a little fellow, and he's angry, he's very he's 431 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: not going out on top. Let's say that, not going 432 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: out on top. And so here he is bitter, angry, 433 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: and he has taken the making statements. I got Mam 434 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: Donnie elected, he's raised taxes and he won't meet with me. Oh, oh, 435 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: this is funny. It's his fun Maybe he'll move to 436 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: Florida like everybody else has, even Zuckerberg has moved from 437 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: California to Florida. So you got the governor of New 438 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: York who's looking at the projections. And here's the problem. 439 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: If a rich person is paying you a million dollars 440 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: a year in taxes to New York, New York looks 441 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: at it as They don't look at it as how 442 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: do we make sure to provide the services safety, security, cleanliness, 443 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 1: transportation to keep that person happy so they want to 444 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: stay here. That's not how democrats or even people in 445 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: government look at things. They go, well, we're getting a million, 446 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: let's get two million. Well how do we do that? 447 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 1: We just double their taxes. What they don't understand that 448 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: a Thomas Soul could have taught you or a Milton Friedman, 449 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: is that people are then going to react to your action. 450 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: For every action, there's going to be a reaction, and 451 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: you're not factoring that in. There is an elastic demand 452 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: for the joys of living in New York, which used 453 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: to be considered a great thing. There's an elastic demand. 454 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: In other words, it changes. So when you so he's 455 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: paying it, somebody's paying in a million dollars in taxes, 456 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: Kathy Hokel and mom Donnie go, well, let's get two 457 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: million from him, And he says, you know what, I'm 458 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: moving to Florida. So now instead of getting a million 459 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: in taxes, you don't get two million. You get zero. 460 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: So that changes the whole economics because you're also spending 461 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: more money at the same time you're planning on getting 462 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: more money. So now Kathy Hokel is making a fool 463 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: of herself. She is she is now saying, well, hey, 464 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: are you rich New Yorkers? When you I'll go down 465 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: to Palm Beach, see how many of these people you 466 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: can bring back, won't you, And. 467 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 10: Being conscious of the facts that I need people who 468 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 10: are high net worth to support the generous social programs 469 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 10: that we want to have in our state. Right now, 470 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 10: there are some patriotic. 471 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,720 Speaker 1: Millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. 472 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 10: I mean, just if you want to be supportive, But 473 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 10: maybe the first step should be go down to Palm 474 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 10: Beach and see what you can bring back home. Because 475 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 10: our tax base has been eroded, so. 476 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: I feel soft. We don't have a problem. 477 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 10: It is like I have to look at the fact 478 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 10: that we are in competition with other states who have 479 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 10: less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals, 480 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 10: and I would say remote work changed everything. There are 481 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 10: people who could only work in an office in Manhattan 482 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 10: and work in New York State, and they were a 483 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 10: captive store state. They were going to state. We've saw 484 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 10: that that's not the case. I mean, you know Wall 485 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 10: Street businesses looking at Texas. 486 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: They're not going there because. 487 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 10: They have a nicer governor, I know that for sure, 488 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 10: but they're going there because of. 489 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,719 Speaker 1: The tax rin. We have to be smart about this. Well, 490 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: we can't. 491 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 10: Fund what we want to fund is what we already 492 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 10: taking in. 493 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: Word on the street is that New York is running 494 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: ads in Florida begging people to please come back. Hello, there, 495 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: it's us New York. 496 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 9: We know things got complicated, the taxes, the fees, the 497 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 9: temporary searcharges that somehow felt very permanent. 498 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 1: And yes, maybe we did take you for granted. 499 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 9: Your peenthouses, your hedge funds, your rooftop swimming pools. But 500 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 9: we need to talk because while you've been off in Florida, 501 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 9: wearing shorts in January and smiling, we've been here trying 502 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 9: to keep everything running, the programs, the initiatives, the pilot 503 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 9: programs for the programs, and without you, well, the spreadsheets 504 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 9: are starting to look red. Remember what we had the energy, 505 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 9: the culture, the ability to spend your money in ways 506 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 9: you didn't fully understand. Come back not for us, but 507 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 9: something bigger, for the dream, for the idea that, no 508 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 9: matter how high. 509 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: Taxes get, you'll always be there to make the payments. 510 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 9: Think of it as a civic pride with automatic withdrawals. 511 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: Thank you, and good night.